Butterfly card tutorial.

In this post I'm going to show you how I made this card.

To begin I glued a piece of patterened paper to the top left corner of a 7 x 7 inch squared piece of smooth stamping card. Then I added colour using a blending tool. The colours I used were worn lipstick and bundled sage distress oxide ink pads. 

Next I coloured a piece of lace using the worn lipstick ink. Then glued it, using a wet glue, to my background.

Next I coloured a piece of ticket style ephemera and glued it unde0rneath the lace.

When the glue had dried, I mounted this onto a piece of black card, then a piece of pink card and then onto an 8 x 8 inch square card blank. 

I then stamped one of the large butterflies from Artisan Design's Butterfly Supreme 2 stamp set using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. As this stamp has some quite large areas of rubber, I used my stamping platform, so that I could do it twice if necessary.

I then coloured it using the same distress inks that I used for the background. To do this I smooshed both inks on my glass mat. Then using a damp paint brush I applied the ink to the image. Vary the amount of water in the brush to alter the shade.

Next I fussy cut the image out and using my fingers I shaped it to make it look like it was flying. I stuck it to the card using glue gel. I stamoed the sentiment, which is from the same stamp set and added flat back pearls as embellishments.